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Add Happiness to Schools

Over the last three years of the pandemic, schools have gone through major changes in how they deliver curriculum. From every student going home

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Dreams Unfulfilled

Dreams Unfulfilled

In the Mismeasure of Man (1981), paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould critiques, “the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that the social and

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Sustaining Student Learning

Sustaining Student Learning

So much of education reform involves large restructuring of schools and systems. Sometimes it is important to focus on some simple and time-tested ways

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What is ChatGPT

What is ChatGPT?

For about six months the ChatGPT bot has hit the headlines that matter to schools: “The University of New Hampshire has warned students about the consequences

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Education, Pregnancy, Inequality

As the overall rate of teenage pregnancy declines, the relationship between teenage pregnancy and inequality may be positively influenced by learning, progress, and education.

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The Desire For Understanding

Learning and education were onced defined by the Greeks as a, “desire for universal understanding” (Tubbs, 2014). As this broad goal of universal understanding

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Phonics is So Important

There is a pendulum swing going on from whole language to phonics in reading strategies for American Students in K-12 schools. Phonics teaching where

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SEL Progress?

Students go to school to learn how to read and do math. Schools of course offer many other subjects like art, social studies, science,

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Personal Learning

When you think back to the best type of learning experience you ever had, the name and face of that teacher usually come back

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The Science of Reading

Introduction: Since the beginning of educational pedagogy—the theories, methods, and practices of teaching and learning—reading has always been placed first in importance. As the

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The SchoolWorks Lab EdSpeak Let's Vote

Let’s Vote

I think we are on the verge of a very important election that seems to hold our current democracy in its hands. Normally, a

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